Comsys and Netron Form Strategic Alliance.Business Editors TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2002 National IT provider chooses Netron's leading application mining capabilities to support new consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" for system transformation projects Netron Inc. announced today that Comsys Information Technology Services Inc., a premier US provider of IT staffing, services and solutions, has formed a strategic alliance with Netron to provide system transformation solutions using Netron HotRod(TM) EE within its expanding professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. group. HotRod EE will be used to support the introduction of new consulting services in Comsys's Transformation and Integration practice. The practice provides consulting services focused on business case and financial justification of IT initiatives, application system integration and redevelopment, enterprise architecture planning and application system migration planning/implementation. HotRod EE will also be employed within Comsys Healthcare and Application Outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. practices. The Healthcare One practice will apply HotRod EE as one of its key components in the "Codebreaker" suite of tools to support Layer-One integration and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, related projects. As Comsys phases in new service offerings throughout 2002, HotRod EE will play a critical role in finding, understanding, and documenting core business rules and in mining knowledge from legacy and existing systems. These services support strategic IT decisions on whether to reengineer, replace, or reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. key parts of core business application systems. Speaking for Comsys, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Mike Willis commented, "When Comsys looked for transformation tools for our new transformation and integration practice, we evaluated the vendors including those in Gartner's Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. . We selected the Netron solution because it offers unique capabilities and flexibility in how functionality is redeployed." Netron president Peter Ruttan added, "Comsys's business model provides more value to our customers. Not only is Comsys national in scope but it offers in-depth technical expertise focused on legacy transformation for many vertical markets. As a result, our important new relationship with Comsys allows us to provide our customers with a broader range of services and trained resources to support their strategic re-engineering projects." About Comsys Comsys Information Technology Services, Inc. (www.comsys.com) is a premier IT staffing and solutions company with a nationwide presence. Leveraging over 30 years of experience, Comsys has built upon its core competency A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
For more information, contact: tbrinegar@comsys.com About Netron Netron (www.netron.com) is a provider of IT solutions for legacy systems focused on accelerating change and making systems transformations easier, cost-effective, and above all, low-risk. Netron's solutions and 20 years of legacy expertise provide methods and tools to transform proven legacy logic and move the business forward -- from enabling legacy replacement and large-scale data migration to web-enabling existing systems. About HotRod Designed for use by central analysis teams estimating, assessing and managing legacy system projects, Netron HotRod EE reduces the risk of missing key features and functionality when implementing a package or transforming or rewriting re·write v. re·wrote , re·writ·ten , re·writ·ing, re·writes v.tr. 1. To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise. 2. a legacy system. It provides the highest level of automation for finding all the business rules in a system and is the only technology to offer innovations such as pattern-based analysis, automatic business rule identification, and automatic clone clone, group of organisms, all of which are descended from a single individual through asexual reproduction, as in a pure cell culture of bacteria. Except for changes in the hereditary material that come about by mutation, all members of a clone are genetically detection, which result in faster and more complete business rule recovery than other solutions. For more information, contact: paul_paetz@netron.com or marisa_mainelli@netron.com Netron is a registered trademark and Netron HotRod (patents pending) is a trademark of Netron Inc. |
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